New Curriculum Standard Required Ancient Poems and Classics Recitation Guidance (Includes Disc)

Author: Xie Lenhao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Recitation is a creative activity that transforms visual written text into auditory spoken language. It takes literary works rooted in life yet transcending it and, through the modulation of tone and the infusion of emotion, gives them voice, transforming them into artistic expressions of spoken language with strong artistic expressiveness and. For a long time, recitation has accompanied our lives. During the war years, it became a powerful weapon for struggle. Many patriotic individuals raised their arms in exclamation, pouring their hearts intoing heartfelt poems and verses, spreading the principles of saving the nation and disseminating knowledge for national strength. In the period of building a new China, many passionate youth, inspired by famous poems, enthusiastically went to the frontiers and to places where the motherland needed them to build a socialist country. In the new era of reform and opening up, recitation has even greater artistic charm, making it widely enjoyed by people. It is extensively used in teaching activities, media promotion, and interpersonal communication. Precisely because recitation art has such important social functions, it is increasingly favored by people, especially teenagers, who hope to quickly improve their recitation skills and master the techniques as soon as possible. They desire to have a popular, practical, comprehensive, and highly operable guidebook. The publication of Xie Lenhao's edited "Essentials of Chinese and Foreign Recitation Art" is truly a work that meets the need.